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Tag: WikiLeaks

Australia plans law for tech firms to hand over encrypted private data or face millions in fines, jail time for execs

Tuesday, August 14, 2018 12:02 pmTuesday, August 14, 201816 Comments

Australia on Tuesday proposed a new law requiring technology firms…

Fired FBI director James Comey reveals how Apple’s encryption efforts drove him crazy

Monday, April 16, 2018 12:03 pmMonday, April 16, 201824 Comments

Fired FBI director James Comey writes about President Trump while also addressing other aspects of his career…

iCloud changes put Apple on collision course with overreaching governments

Thursday, July 20, 2017 2:44 pmThursday, July 20, 201711 Comments

Apple has consistently argued against laws that would require tech companies to build so-called ‘back doors’ into their software…

Apple flies in top executives to lobby Australia’s Turnbull government on encryption laws

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 5:17 pm10 Comments

Apple’s top privacy executives have flown out to Australia twice in the past month…

Apple meeting with Australian government to discuss proposed encryption ‘back doors’

Tuesday, July 18, 2017 2:33 pmTuesday, July 18, 201732 Comments

Attorney-General George Brandis will meet with global tech-giant Apple this week…

President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey who called for iPhone backdoor

Tuesday, May 9, 2017 6:46 pmTuesday, May 9, 2017110 Comments

President Trump has fired the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey…

WikiLeaks reveals CIA’s secret software tools for infecting Microsoft’s Windows

Saturday, April 8, 2017 1:29 pm31 Comments

27 documents related to ‘Grasshopper,’ the codename for a set of software tools used to build customized malware for Windows PCs…

WikiLeaks says CIA disguised agency hacking as Russian activity

Friday, March 31, 2017 2:32 pmFriday, March 31, 201772 Comments

WikiLeaks has published hundreds more files today which it claims show the CIA went to great lengths to disguise…

WikiLeaks to give Apple, Google, others 90-day deadline to fix flaws revealed in ‘Vault 7’

Tuesday, March 21, 2017 1:38 pm10 Comments

WikiLeaks promise to give tech companies access to exploits in their systems before being made public…

What WikiLeaks’ CIA data dump tells us: Encryption works

Saturday, March 11, 2017 11:34 am26 Comments

If the tech industry is drawing one lesson from the latest WikiLeaks disclosures…

Julian Assange says WikiLeaks will share CIA hacking tools with tech companies

Thursday, March 9, 2017 3:01 pm7 Comments

WikiLeaks will provide technology companies with exclusive access to CIA hacking tools…

Apple working to close remaining CIA exploits exposed by WikiLeaks, but difficulties remain

Thursday, March 9, 2017 11:46 am11 Comments

Just after 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning, mobile phones belonging to executives on Apple…

WikiLeaks raises prospect of teaming with tech giants, including Apple, to thwart CIA hacker-spies

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 4:35 pm8 Comments

The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks raised the prospect Wednesday of sharing sensitive details…

FBI’s James Comey: ‘There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America’

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 4:01 pmWednesday, March 8, 2017103 Comments

All of us have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our homes, in our cars, and in our devices. But…

Apple: Many of the iOS vulnerabilities in Wikileaks’ CIA data dump are already patched

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 9:56 amWednesday, March 8, 201729 Comments

Wikileaks today published a trove of documents, allegedly taken from the CIA..

WikiLeaks reveals CIA’s global covert hacking program targeting Apple iPhone, Google Android, Microsoft Windows and even Samsung TVs

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 11:11 amTuesday, March 7, 201741 Comments

Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency…

Supporters of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange claim responsibility for knocking major sites offline

Saturday, October 22, 2016 12:22 pmSaturday, October 22, 201661 Comments

Supporters of Wikileaks’ Julian Assange have claimed responsibility for taking down major websites Friday…

Apple CEO Tim Cook was on early list of potential VP candidates for Hillary Clinton campaign

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 2:24 pm16 Comments

In one of the WikiLeaks-published Podesta emails allegedly detailing the inner workings of of the Hillary Clinton election campaign…

Latest Wikileaks email leak includes Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s Apple ID and password

Thursday, October 13, 2016 2:25 pmThursday, October 13, 201620 Comments

Unauthorized users appear to have accessed Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta’s various accounts…

WikiLeaks emails show Hillary Clinton campaign logo was inspired by Apple

Wednesday, October 12, 2016 4:05 pmWednesday, October 12, 201655 Comments

Hillary Clinton’s campaign logo, a red arrow going through the middle of a capitol ‘H,’ was influenced by Apple…

Donald Trump slams Google: It’s a ‘disgrace’ if Google manipulates results to favor Hillary Clinton

Saturday, June 11, 2016 2:02 pmSaturday, June 11, 201690 Comments

Donald Trump has responded to SourceFed’s allegation that Google manipulated its search recommendations…

Apple requested 4K video content from Sony Pictures back in 2013

Friday, June 19, 2015 2:58 pm4 Comments

WikiLeaks on Thursday dumped another 200,000+ documents…

WikiLeaks demands answers after Google hands staff emails to US government

Monday, January 26, 2015 2:56 pmMonday, January 26, 201512 Comments

Google took almost three years to disclose to the open information group WikiLeaks…

Obama’s secret attempt to ban cellphone unlocking, while claiming to support it

Tuesday, November 19, 2013 10:27 amTuesday, November 19, 201359 Comments

Last week, WikiLeaks made public a portion of a treaty that the White House…

Sex, porn, politics and Steve Jobs highlight 35th Sundance Film Festival

Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:32 pm16 Comments

Movie executives and first-time directors trudging through the snow…

Wikileaks’ Spy Files show government snoops on Mac, Windows

Friday, December 2, 2011 10:53 pmFriday, December 2, 201144 Comments

Wikileaks has a web page called the Spy Files that shows off a number of Internet surveillance…

WikiLeaks cables detail Apple’s battle with counterfeits in China

Tuesday, August 30, 2011 9:02 amTuesday, August 30, 201114 Comments

Apple was slow to act against the booming counterfeit industry in China…

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